Mantis AI Participant Onboarding
Thanks for your interest in participating in our AI Mantis project for Cognitive Cartography and Human-Driven AI-Powered Interactive Visual Data Science. We are truly overwhelmed by the positive responses, and eager to meet with each of you. You have received a link to this form because you seem like a potentially great match for our team, and we would love to walk through the project with you, and to have a chance to meet you, and also for you to meet us and each other.  This form will help us better understand your interests, skills, and availability so we can match you with the right teams and projects.     

To learn more:
(2) Sign up here, try Mantis out here, and learn more in depth here
(3) Outline your goals for what you'd like to contribute to Mantis in
this form (scroll below)
(4) see our recent onboarding meetings on July 22, July 4May 20April 26, and April 12
Super excited to work together with so many of you. Thank you!! Manolis
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Full Name *
Github Email *
If you don't have one, please create an account
Gmail address *
For Google Calendar, Google Ddocs, etc
WhatsApp Mobile number *
Format: 123-456-7890 for US; XXX-123-456-7890 for other country codes (no + please)
If you don't have WhatsApp, please create an account
Website
LinkedIn, School, Personal, Porfolio
Career/Education Status *
HS11, HS12, U1, U2, G1, G2, PhD+12, etc
How did you learn about our team? *
Please be super specific. e.g. "Brian Kadener (my cousin) forwarded me your LinkedIn post"; "MIT UROP Office ELx Posting"; "Met Prof. Kellis at MIT HealthTech Group on Dec 12, 2024 and he emailed me"; "Emailed Prof. Kellis about a position on XXX and he recommended this form". 
Top Accomplishment(s) *
What are your top accomplishments, in terms of coding projects, programming/science/math competitions, entrepreneurships, teamwork, leadership, engineering, building apps/games/websites, etc. Please upload posters/papers/PDFs from your top project(s) including images, screenshots, findings, etc (please be content-heavy, not just slides with titles of the projects, but the detailed findings that you would present as your final report to your supervisor): http://tinyurl.com/FilesForManolis You can include links to websites in your answers. If these are linked from your website, or from your CV, no need to duplicate. You can also just re-use your final reports/posters, no need to re-create or change the format, just drop in anything with heavy technical content at the link. Thank you!
Coding Experience *
Group the following technologies into three areas of proficiency, comma-separated lists: 
Top: Extensive experience using them in projects
Medium: Used one or two times, can look up the rest to be productive
Bottom: Haven't used, would still need to wrap my head around them. 
None: I don't think I'll be using that in my contributions to the project [or you can not list those]
The technologies are: Python, React, Django, REST, Pandas, GitHub, Data Scraping, Agents, Agentic MCP servers, AI Libraries, DevOps, Celery, AWS, SDK, APIs, LangChain, Selenium, NumPy, Asynchronous Programming, HuggingFace, Transformers, BERT, Scikit-learn, FAISS, JSON, Threading, Multiprocessing, Pydantic, Full-Stack Development, Embeddings, UMAP, tSNE, Linear Algebra, Algorithms, Haystack, Neo4j, NetworkX, Flask, Airflow, Ray RLlib, GPT, Cursor, Copilot, WebSockets
Feel free to list additional relevant technologies and tools that you want to bring in. 
Application Areas *
What application areas (verticals) would you like to apply Mantis to, in addition to your contributions to the platform (horizontal). What vertical-specific tools/capabilities would you like to develop? 
Proposed contributions to platform *
What would you like to work on for the platform (horizontal)? Front-end, back-end, agents, compute sandbox, plotting, floors, networks, knowledge extraction, keywords, search, mapping, optimization, parallelization, reasoning, embeddings, evaluation. BTW: "None" is a fine answer if you want to instead contribute to applications
Proposed contributions to vertical(s) *
If Mantis was already fully-featured and complete (which it kinda is), application areas (verticals) would you like to apply it to, and what would you like to analyze in these areas?
[Example verticals: drug development; protein function; media; investments; patents; education; finance; etc...]
[Example uses: Co-embed drugs based on structure+indications to discover xxx; co-embed language and structure to find yyy; etc...]
Proposed Role in the Mantis Team *
1. Navigator: This involves navigating Mantis spaces, gaining insights, reporting bugs, becoming super-users of the system, suggesting improvements and new features. 
2. Cartographer: This involves finding awesome datasets online, creating new spaces from CSV spreadsheets, literature searches, PDF documents, and demonstrating their usefulness. 
3. Data Scrapping: This involves creating new datasets for cartography, by scraping data, websites, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, News, etc. Some programming and data science background is helpful, including using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Octoparse, and other tools. 
4. Data Cleanup: This involves cleaning up scraped datasets for Mantis ingestion, which might need coding, macros, logical thinking, and semi-automated semi-manual cleanup, to make sure datasets are meaningful, helpful, and ready for cartography. 
5. Platform (Horizontal) Full-Stack Engineer: This involves the most coding and full-stack software development across front-/back-end, GitHub, integration, and is typically reserved to those with the most software engineering experience. 
6. Application (Vertical) Developer: This involves domain-specific coding, deep understanding of specific application areas, creating domain-specific multi-modal embeddings, solving domain-specific ML problems, and leading applications of Mantis to specific verticals
7. Self-Contained Coding/ML Tasks: This involves Mantis-inspired coding of specific ML capabilities related to Mantis, which can then be integrated and plugged in, by working closely with platform developers. 

Potential paths for new Mantis team members could be:
(a) 1,2,4,3 for those with less programming background, or
(b) 5,6,7 for those with extensive full-stack software engineering background in large codebases and teams
(c) 7,6,5 for those with more isolated coding and ML interests but less extensive software engineering
1=Not interested
2=If that's the only option
3=Sounds Good
4=Very Interested
5=Top Choice
Navigator
Cartographer
Data Scrapping
Data Cleanup
Platform (Horizontal) Full-Stack Engineer
Application (Vertical) Developer
Self-Contained Coding/ML Tasks
How many hours and over what period are you hoping to contribute *
Example Format: (hit "Alt-Enter" for carriage return, adjust dates/times, add additional periods, etc)
Fall'25: Sep-Dec18: 15 hours/week
Break'25: Dec 18-Jan 8: 40 hours/week (specify dates of your break)
Spring'26: Jan 8-May 30: 15 hours/week
Summer'26: June 1-Aug 30: 40 hours/week
Travel'26: Typically in Aug: 10 hours/week
Time constraints *
To help coordinate meeting times, tell us more about your current time constraints, and what times/days are best for you to join team meetings
(a) current school/employer, city, state
(b) time difference from Boston (zone)
(c) school/job times (your local time)
(d) best times for meetings (your local time)
(e) best times for meetings (Boston time, please do the conversion for us)
Format examples: 
(a) Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA; (b) Bos-3 (PST); (c) M-F9a-2.30p; (d) M-F3p-8p, Sa1p-5p, Su10a-3p; (e) M-F6p-11p, Sa4p-8p, Su1p-6p
(a) Microsoft, New York, NY; (b) Bos+0; (c) 40 flexible hours, except Wed; (d,e) M,T,Th,F,Sa,Su 10a-10p, W5p-10p
(a) Digital Nomad; (b) Varies; (c) 40 flexible hours; (d,e) will make it work
What would be your ideal role if all goes well?  *
After an initial trial period, if everything goes well, what would be your ideal role in Mantis? [e.g. full-time software engineer, graduate student in Kellis Lab, undergrad at MIT, freelance collaborator, lead for one of the verticals, etc] 
CV upload *
Please upload your CV here: http://tinyurl.com/FilesForManolis (even if you already emailed it)
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